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May 25, 2016

Use our Liberty to Create Hope

Discouragement is always clever, but hope is always wise. Why? We live in God's cosmos...

May 24, 2016

Don’t Pick Between the Useless Red Rose and the White Rose (Henry VI, Part 2)

We need more than piety in leadership. We need strength, competence, and piety. The combination of...

May 23, 2016

No Place Else to Go: A Jolly or a Deadly Monday

When there is no place else to go, that can be a bad thing, unless...

May 22, 2016

God’s Judgment Can’t Be Covered Up with Media (Henry VI, Part 1)

As we enter a Presidential election where a majority of Americans dislike both candidates, we...

May 21, 2016

Waiting for Constantine

Conservatives are rightly skeptical of great men. For every Lincoln, there is a string of...

May 20, 2016

Iago University: the Treason of the Professors (Othello)

Secular or Christian-too much of American higher education should be named Iago University where promising...

May 19, 2016

Christianity and the Cultural Crisis

I outlined the tensions of our era in a brief lecture at The Saint Constantine...

May 18, 2016

Measure for Measure: Aspire to be Good, but We Are Not (Jesus, Shakespeare)

Jesus was a very smart and wise man and when we have a chance to...

May 17, 2016

Once You Have a Mess, It Just Gets Messier (Richard III)

When the leaders are bad, things get to be a mess, and when things are...

May 16, 2016

Accepting (and Enjoying!) our Human Foolishness (A Midsummer Night’s Dream)

We are foolish, but need not be Biblical fools. Biblical fools destroy life and...

May 15, 2016

Have a Galilee Moment: Jesus is Here as He Always Has Been

Father Richard preached up a storm today . . . and reminded us all (Saint...

May 14, 2016

Endurance and Not Words (Troilus and Cressida)

I love you. Very powerful to say today, but most powerful to say every day...

May 13, 2016

More than an “N” Christian: in the Family

Recently, Christianity Today magazine featured a symbol on the cover from Arabic that many have...

May 12, 2016

The Winner of this Year’s Uncle Tony Award (Spoiler: Sounds like Jerry Falwell)

Every year (more or less) members of the universal Church (actually just me) gather to...

May 11, 2016

Thomas Jefferson was the Worst and I Would Have Voted For Him

Thomas Jefferson was a cad, a fool, and was totally naive about revolutionary France. As...

May 10, 2016

Don’t Condemn Percy: Problems Often Aren’t, Especially People

One joy of moving into a new office is seeing old stuff in new ways....

May 09, 2016

Having Done All Stand: A Message from Dad

It is good to have great parents. . . Today I got up to find...

May 08, 2016

Want to survive tough times? Buy Ketchup.

As always, we live in difficult times. The fact that times are always the best...

May 07, 2016

Tyrants are Made, Not Born: How to Lose a Republic

We don't need to guess about how republics fail: we have history and philosophy to...

May 06, 2016

Mountaineers are Always Human: Bigotry of the Elite

For almost four hundred years, my family lived in western Virginia and West Virginia. We...

May 05, 2016

Bad Political Idea Have Consequences: Maximilian of Mexico

Whenever I believe good intentions are enough, I recall standing at the tomb of Maximilian...

May 04, 2016

How to Respond to Difficult Political Times: Thank You Mr. Larkin

America faces five months of incredibly negative political campaigning. Sigh. We could all dash around...

May 03, 2016

Have we all become a strumpet’s fool?

There was a time when a sneer of the elite was about "middle class morality,"...

May 02, 2016

Three Signs that the American Polity is in Trouble

No nation lasts forever. The United States of America nearly fell apart in the Civil...

May 01, 2016

The Priority of a Party: You cannot be too Happy (Much Ado about Nothing)

One of my children once said: "I don't want to be too good. It would...

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